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Our latest edition of WIG is filled with news link goodness covering topics such as Unity 2D will not be a part of Ubuntu 12.10, Facebook has revised their privacy policy yet again, cybercrooks are now focusing on Tumblr and Pinterest for new victims, and more.

Unity 2D To Go Away In Ubuntu 12.10It appears that Unity 2D — the Qt non-accelerated desktop version of the Ubuntu Unity desktop — will be abandoned by Canonical. There’s also going to be some GNOME 3.6 packages appearing in Ubuntu 12.10.

Hands-on Boot to Gecko: Interesting, but far from bakedThe makers of Firefox have a new baby on the way, a Firefox-driven mobile OS called Boot to Gecko. CNET’s Seth Rosenblatt shares his thoughts on the “Mozillaphone” after some hands-on time with the very rough, very in-development device.

Asia ‘hotspot’ for DDoS attacks, but no need to overreactDistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more rampant in Asia with the region’s connectivity, partly due to its ease of staging, and Asian nations are increasingly perpetuating such attacks on one another, which may potentially lead to a cyberwar, Akamai executive notes.

Adobe backs down, will release patches for critical holesAdobe has announced – through changes to the security advisories it issued earlier this week – that it is developing patches for the critical holes in the CS5.x versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash Professional, after previously advising users that they needed to buy the just-released CS6 versions of the applications.

Android malware woes look a lot like Windows’McAfee says that Android malware is taking a worrisome turn, with cybercriminals mimicking popular strategies used against Windows. The latest attacks tap IRC bots, where the malware gets further operating instructions from an Internet chatroom.

FBI: Updates Over Public ‘Net Access = Bad IdeaThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is advising travelers to avoid updating software while using hotel or other public Internet connections, warning that malicious actors are targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while they are establishing an Internet connection in their hotel rooms.

Mac OS X leaking passwords of FileVault usersUsers of older Mac OS X versions who upgraded to the current Mac OS X 10.7.3, “Lion” and opted to stick with the older version of the FileVault encryption system, may have a problem. It appears that Apple developers enabled a debug option in 10.7.3 which makes the user’s password appear, in clear text in a log file, whenever the user mounts the encrypted folder.

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A Review of GFI Vipre Internet Security 2012Lately VIPRE has done some pretty aggressive marketing for their security products. But are they good enough at securing your computer? Are they worth the investment? Find out from this thorough review.

Be a Beta Tester and Win Geeky PrizesBitDefender has an interesting approach for the beta test of their 2013 version of their security products. Anyone who chooses to be an active beta tester gets 60 days of free security with their beta product, is eligible to win really cool prizes such as an Asus B121 12.1 inch Tablet, an Acer Aspire S3 13.3 inch Ultrabook – Aluminium, a Nokia Lumia 900 or 100 Bitdefender Internet Security 2013 licenses for 6 months.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The euphemism for death “kicked the bucket” entered into the English language via the mistranslation of the French phrase “kicked the beam” (which referred to the supporting beam that a pig was hung from in a slaughterhouse).